Wednesday, 10 August 2011

I'm going to be a fucking optimist.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ~ Harry Truman

I’m going to put good vibes out into the planet and wait for the good things to come back to me.

Or that’s the plan anyway. Not that I think that this is going to stop me making miserable art. I’ve got enough ideas and things locked away from the past 28 years to fuel miserable art for another 50 years, at least, but it’s time to stop getting lost in them. Time to take this happy buzz I have going and send that out to grow and be. Who knows maybe I will turn into an optimist. Maybe optimism is naïve. But fuck it, as R. Buckminster Fuller said ‘dare to be naïve’.

So I’m going to put everything into making art, I’m going to let it rip me apart and put me back together then send it out into the world to have other people connect to it, laugh at it, rip it apart or ignore it. But I’m an optimist now so it will all go perfectly, every piece will be loved, I won’t sell anything for under 3 billion dollars each. I will get to live in all the countries I want to live in and I will get my castle complete with a moat.

But if it doesn’t and it’s hated or ignored at least in twenty years I won’t look back and wonder what it could have become if only I was brave enough to throw it out there.

Here’s to being an optimist. Where's the vodka...

Ears are dancing around with: John Butler Trio
Eyes are still reading A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer

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Absconditus Creations, aka Nikki Parker, was destined to live in amongst the weird and wonderful after falling into the world on a Friday 13th back in 1983.

Growing up with a pencil in hand, fueled by a bizarre imagination and many a hallucination filled day and night, due to any one of the illnesses they've tried to unsuccessfully pin on her, there was no way she was ever going to be happy painting pretty pictures.

With the attention span of a gnat and an inability to focus solely in one direction her work ranges from the dark quirky characters that have kept her company for years to the head fork that keeps her mad and suicidal, alive and honest. And whatever sparks her interest in between.

Located in North Canterbury, New Zealand.

Can be found trundling around local markets over summer. See website for details.